An Epic D-day Movie

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2020)

The Longest Day is a 1962 war movie with one of the most impressive cast in film history (Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, John Wayne). Coming at about 3 hours this film is very long and with a gigantic number of characters. I really liked this film, it's portrait of the many forces that played an important role in the D day and the all together epic proportions of this film. I also really liked the cinematography, the beach landings have some amazing and beautiful shots. The acting is good but maybe due to the giant amount of characters it feels like no one (not even the big names) gives any amazing performance. I personaly think the film is a little too long but it wasn't painful to sit trough it. Finaly I absolutely loved how the film showed so many perspesctives, the american and british forces, the french forces returning to fight for their country, the german point of view and I espeacily loved the scenes with the french resistance. There were parts of the movie that really put me off though, like in the beginning the shot of a german talking with the sea behind him but then he sudently disapears and reapears back in the same place a few moments later.
Overall this film isn't perfect or anything but it is still very worth watching and it's still probably one of the best D day movie ever made
8.6/10